HTC’s TouchFlo3D a great success, consumers would buy again
Canalys has a performed a survey of 3000 mobile phone users in France, Germany and UK and found 54% of users wanted their next phone to have touch screens. However most users who actually had touch screens were disappointed with the experience, with 53% saying they would move away from these type of devices.
The exception were however HTC smartphones, who with Apple had much higher acceptance rate. With the vast majority of HTC’s handsets still running Windows Mobile this is a major endorsement of the user experience on HTC’s handsets running the OS.
Also interesting is that 16% of users preferring stylus based devices, compared to 38% who wanted finger-centric ones. This indicates that the stylus-contingent is far from small or insignificant. These users were also pretty resistant to moving to finger-orientated devices (something we have seen in our own comment section). Interestingly enough however it was again HTC and Samsung users who were most prepared to move from stylus to finger, likely because their Windows Mobile devices allowed both methods of operation.
Read more about this interesting study at Canalys here.
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The only stylus/finger statistics i would be interested in are those from people who have experience using both. i'm sure that the majority of users have only used one or only have limited experience with the other.
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l3v5y Reply:
November 3rd, 2009 at 8:54 pm
iPhone/most Android users can only use one, whilst WM gives that flexibility…
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Well Touchflo has become a high selling point for wm phones.. Wonder if we'll hear the same about titanium or other homescreens like touchwiz :\\
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But I can never play bubble breaker without a stylus! and that's pretty much the most addicting game I've played on winmo :p
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